Buyer’s Guide: FX E-trading Systems

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The Evolution of Vendor Offerings for FX Trading

In 2015, the technology vendor landscape for FX e-trading platforms and systems has achieved a state of maturity in terms of sophistication that remains unique within the capital markets arena. As a result, a plethora of incumbent and emerging software and hardware providers are competing for buyside and sellside market share that increasingly demands innovative, infrastructure-focused solutions addressing the need for full trade lifecycle services across flow FX and FX options instruments.

Analysis of these vendor solutions suggests that, in the future, these types of systems will allow users the ability to utilise sophisticated currencies-pricing tools to more accurately and dynamically price trades in other types of instruments, like interest rates swaps, for example. However, in order for FX e-trading technology to authoritatively advance to a point wherein it can effectively serve as a mechanism for the pricing of non-FX instruments on a cross-asset class basis, the platforms and systems must continue to offer users functionality geared toward the evolution of an all-to-all market structure for flow FX and – eventually – both vanilla and non-vanilla FX options instruments that lend themselves to electrification.

This report presents a sampling of the current state of five of the FX market’s most competitive vendor offerings for currencies e-trading. The report provides readers with vendor sheets for each surveyed vendor in which each solution’s functionality has been independently ranked across a wide spectrum of services. These assessments are designed to help users of the systems make decisions about which type of system best suits the needs of their organisation.